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Was minecraft supposed to be modable from day 1? I know from my own experience that if you design a large monolithic application and then decide afterwards that
by jiggy2011 13y ago
Was minecraft supposed to be modable from day 1?
I know from my own experience that if you design a large monolithic application and then decide afterwards that you want a pluggable system, it's never easy if you don't have time to refactor the whole thing.
Also network programming and game/graphics programming are different disciplines with their own challenges. Big studios might assign different people to these tasks, so I wouldn't expect somebody to be amazing at both.
- arrrg 13y agoNo, it wasn’t written that way at all. Notch never intended it to be moddable and he had no idea at all that modding would be such a big deal for Minecraft. In the very beginning Notch was even (slightly) opposed to modding. I think it was more like a gut reaction: People are doing things with my stuff I didn’t expect and I don’t like it. (Not that he ever even began to consider taking legal steps against it or something awful like that.) He came around to it, though. By the time he handed Minecraft off he was fully in the “modding is great for Minecraft” camp. But the game was never developed for that. A real modding API has been in the works for quite some time now, but it seems to be quite hard to pull that off.